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Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation at a glance

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Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$526k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.3MHealth$512kPhilanthropy$442kRecreation & Sports$410kAnimals$300kEnvironment$261kHuman Services$201kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas University Endowment Association$150,000
Penrose-St Francis Health Foundation$125,000
Early Connections Learning Centers$50,000
Broadmoor Community Church$30,000
Red Lodge Area Community Foundation$30,000
Trust for Public Land$25,000
Telluride Science and Research Center$25,000
Foundation for Colorado Springs Future$20,000
Colorado Springs Philharmonic$10,000
Indygive$10,000
Colorado Springs Downtown Ventures$10,000
UCCS$7,000
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum$5,000
Rocky Mountain Field Institute$5,000
Gazette Charities$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA: $1k → 12%FII-NATIONAL: $25k → 10%The Adoption Exchange: $25k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $1k → 12%The Adoption Exchange: $25k → 11%Raise the Future: $25k → 12%Early Connections Learning Centers: $50k → 9%Springs Rescue Mission: $50k → 9%Catamount Institute: $20k → 9%THE CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $2k → 9%CATAMOUNT INSTITUTE: $1k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $50k → 9%CHEYENNE VILLAGE: $50k → 9%Pikes Peak Hospice Foundation: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 36 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
27

Total granted

$4.6M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-9%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +24%
  • PE
    Peak Education
    6× · 2018–2024 · $423k · revenue ×12 · 58% of their budget
  • AP
    Atlas Preparatory School Inc
    2× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +233%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -92%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau

Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau's, now doing business as Visit Colorado Springs (VCOS), primary exempt purpose is promotion of the Pikes Peak Region. VCOS is designed to stimulate the visitor industry in the Pikes Peak…

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2
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
3
Colorado Press Association

Promote the general interest of daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and online publications, improve editorials and business methods of daily and weekly newspapers, and advance those newspapers' usefulness and influence in the public…

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4
Center for Nonprofit Excellence

The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…

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5
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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6
Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation

The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.

Health
7
Colorado Springs Philharmonic Foundation

To raise funds and acquire assets, both real and personal, that will provide financial assistance to the Colorado Springs Philharmonic Orchestra.

Arts & Culture
8
Community Radio for Northern Colorado

Community radio for northern colorado's (crnc) mission is to strengthen our community by cultivating the mind and spirit - informing, inspiring, and entertaining. crnc strives to meet its mission by operating two public media services -…

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Springs Conservatory Foundation

The mission of the colorado springs conservatory is to inspire, motivate, and challenge all students to aspire to their highest potential as artists and as human beings through arts immersion studies and community arts advocacy.

Arts & Culture
10
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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11
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
12
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pikes Peak Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Old Colorado City Partnership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
28/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fine Arts Center: $450,000 · OtherFine Arts CenterCheyenne Mountain Zoo: $300,000 · OtherCheyenne Mountain ZooColorado Springs Philharmonic: $230,000 · OtherColorado Springs PhilharmonicBROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCH: $140,000 · OtherBROADMOOR COMMUNITY CHURCHAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $100,000 · OtherSalo Sciences Inc: $100,000 · Other+34 more: $572,120 · Other+34 moreThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $600,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endow…Peak Education: $423,000 · EducationPeak EducationAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $125,000 · EducationAtlas Preparatory School In…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUN…+4 more: $69,667 · Education+4 moreUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $400,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Olympic…COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SPRINGS FINE…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING O…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $85,261 · Arts & Culture+7 morePIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,000 · PhilanthropyINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $41,500 · PhilanthropyRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyGAZETTE CHARITIES: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $410,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCheyenne Village: $100,000 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTURE: $75,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Catamount Institute: $23,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $50,000 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $16,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,892,120Education$1,302,667Arts & Culture$1,040,261Philanthropy$411,500Health$411,000Human Services$326,000Food & Nutrition$66,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPeak Education: $423,000 over 6y, 58% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $410,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Museum: $400,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetPIKES PEAK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAtlas Preparatory School Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCheyenne Village: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD TO POWER (FKA COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE): $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak: $41,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J PALMER PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCONCRETE COUCH: $30,500 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetRED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Catamount Institute: $23,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCULTURAL OFFICE OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $21,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Field Institute Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHey Neighbor: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR COLORADO SPRINGS FUTURE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHEYENNE MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCAST HOUSE: $19,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAZETTE CHARITIES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS ON BIKES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition: $12,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMANITOU SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCareers in Construction Colorado: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeadership Pikes Peak: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRichards Rubbish Roundup: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetColorado Springs Youth Symphony Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Springs Leadership Institute: $1,667 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOLD COLORADO CITY PARTNERSHIP: $1,511 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEAK VISTA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER OMAHA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIKES PEAK HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Joseph Henry Edmo…El Pomar FoundationPikes Peak Community …Colorado Springs Heal…INDYGIVE DBA Give Pik…Bee Vradenburg Founda…The John E and Margar…Ent Credit UnionEsther M & Freeman E …G E Johnson FoundationThe Myron Stratton Ho…Pikes Peak United Way
The Joseph Henry Edmondson FoundationCO55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Joseph Henry Edmondson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Pikes Peak Community Foundation · Colorado Springs Health Foundation · INDYGIVE DBA Give Pikes Peak · Bee Vradenburg Foundation · The John E and Margaret L Lane Foundation · Ent Credit Union · Esther M & Freeman E Everett Charitable · G E Johnson Foundation · The Myron Stratton Home · Pikes Peak United Way

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 90%
  • Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Dusty and Katherine Loo Foundation Dba Bloom Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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